CD Projekt Red has confirmed to Eurogamer that the medallion in the picture teasing the new Witcher game does indeed resemble a lynx.
“Ok, some mysteries should not be so mysterious,” CD Projekt Red global communication director Robert Malinowski told me this afternoon. “I can confirm that the medallion is, in fact, shaped after a lynx.”
It puts to an end speculation that has been swirling ever since the image was released on Monday. The medallion’s likeness to a lynx is clear (see image below); the problem was that no Lynx School existed in the Witcher canon – not in the books or games or anywhere. That’s what had people’s brains in a twist.
The only place it does exist, as Victoria explained in a news post earlier today, was fan fiction – in a post on The Witcher Fandom Wiki. The story dreamt up there was that witcher Lambert and sorceress Kiera Metz journeyed south after the events of The Witcher 3 and eventually joined and reformed the Cat School as the Lynx School.